A book called “Somewhere There is Still a Sun” with a subheading “A Memoir of the Holocaust” was published in the United States last year. Its author Michael Gruenbaum (*1930), who was born and grew up in Prague, was deported to the Terezín Ghetto together with his mother and sister in 1942. In his book […]
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Prison Laundry Room (Wäscherei) – a new permanent exposition in the former Gestapo Police Prison in Terezín
The exhibition of the former prison laundry of the former Gestapo Police Prison in the Small Fortress, Terezín, expanded in autumn 2015 after the reconstruction of the prison laundry room in courtyard III. Visitors so get a unique opportunity to get acquainted with one of the many job descriptions of so-called Interior Commandos, responsible for […]
Project Being at School in the War Years (1938 – 1945)
At the present days a project called Being at School in the War Years (1938 – 1945) is going on at schools of the Czech Republic. It is organized by the Terezin Memorial, the Czech Republic, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, The National Pedagogical Museum and the J. A. Komenský (Comenius) Library in Prague, […]
New project Schoolchild in the War Years
We would like to draw your attention to the announcement of a new pupil and student project of the Terezín Memorial and its partners: the Terezín Initiative Institute and the National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius in Prague, presented under the title Schoolchild in the War Years. The project is more-leveled, students […]
